The overly enriched piety in which orthodoxy bathes the teachings of Moshe conceals the simpler purpose those teachings are trying to impart. If Judaism is to be a covenant, then it must divest itself of the trappings of religion.
The strategy the Orthodox had employed for centuries collapsed under the pressure of modernity. That strategy has now been transformed into a survivalist cult aimed at preserving a way of life that could survive the collapse of modern society. The price of that survival is the rejection of participation in civil society with any but one's own.
Orthodoxy has become about the Jewish people's political and spiritual collapse and subsequent survival more than it is about the covenant with God which ostensibly defines them.
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